NHS England has confirmed that the quality, innovation, productivity and prevention savings programme will continue into the next comprehensive spending review period, pledged to set out how major service reconfigurations should be carried out.
The commitments are made in the organisation’s business plan for the next three financial years, published this week ahead of its April meeting.
The plan, which sets out NHS England’s programme of work to 2015-16 says: “We will develop and oversee a framework for major service reconfiguration that will set out the roles, responsibilities and interfaces between the different organisations across the health and care system.” Part of this work will be to ensure there is “full clinical input”.
It also pledges to focus on the development of primary care “in the light of changing populations and medical models of delivery”.
The plan says the QIPP challenge will be a key priority for the next three years – confirming the programme will formally continue beyond the current comprehensive spending review period, which finishes at the end of 2014-15.
However, the focus will shift towards “transformational change”. A new “ten year strategy” – to be “underpinned by economic modeling” – will be focused on identifying the best clinical pathways and “changing services where necessary.”
Article in Health Service Journal 9 April, 2013 | By David Williams